THE EDITORIAL BOARD

Colin Murray Parkes
OBE MD DPM PRCPsych

Consultant Psychiatrist, St Christopher's and Joseph's Hospices, President of Cruse Bereavement Care, awarded the OBE for services to bereaved people. Formerly Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Royal London Hospital. Author of many books including the seminal work, Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life, now in its third edition.
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Jane McCarthy
PhD MSc BA (Hons) PGCE

Reader in Family Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. Jane has a particular interest in children and young people and bereavement and death and bereavement as family events. She is the author of Young People’s Experiences of Loss and Bereavement: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach (2006), and, with Julie Jessop, of Young People, Bereavement and Loss: Disruptive Transitions (2005). She has also contributed to Adolescent Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping, edited by David Balk and Charles Corr, published by Springer Publishing Company (2009), and the revised edition of Brief Encounters, edited by Barbara Monroe and Frances Krauss (forthcoming, 2009).

Martin Newman
MB ChB MRCPsych

Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to the South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at St George’s Hospital Medical School with a special interest in those who have experienced trauma and bereavement. He is also, with Dora Black, an editor of Psychological Trauma: A Developmental Approach.

Marilyn Relf
BA PhD

Head of Education, Sir Michael Sobell House, Oxford, UK, a sociology researcher who has worked in palliative care for over 20 years and set up one of the first hospice bereavement services. She founded the UK Bereavement Research Forum, is a founder trustee of the children’s bereavement charity, SeeSaw, and a member of the International Working Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement.

David Trickey
BSc MA Cpsychol CertFamTh

Chartered Clinical Psychologist in the Child and Family Team at the Traumatic Stress Clinic, specialises in offering assessment, treatment, consultation and training in traumatic bereavement. Supervises clinical psychology trainees in their doctoral research, and consults to agencies providing responses to various crises.
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International Advisory Editors
Ofra Ayalon PhD, Israel
Tom Lundin MD PhD, Sweden
Robert Pynoos MD MPh, USA
Henk Schut PhD, The Netherlands
Lars Weisaeth MD PhD FNPA, Norway
Robert Weiss PhD, USA

Managing Editor, Catherine Jackson, BA, please click here to email